The URL sent earlier is a dead end, but the collection of Census stories during the Year 2000 still on the Washington Post website at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/socialpolicy/census200… should be reminding us why the Long Form is likely to become history. It was quite clearly becoming a problem for response rates to the decennial Census in general and the Bureau's first priority of getting the population count right. The quality/response rates of future ACS data may not be as good as what we were used to from the Long Form, but we are customers of the short form data, too. And the population head count at any level of geography is (I would imagine for most if not all of us) the Census data item least replaceable from secondary sources . Sam Granato Ohio DOT, Office of Technical Services 1980 W. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43223 Phone: 614-644-6796, Fax: 614-752-8646 "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office." Robert Frost ed christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> Sent by: owner-ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net 04/08/02 07:51 PM To: ctpp-news maillist <ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net> cc: Subject: [CTPP] Washington Post article on Director Kincannon Chuck Purvis alerted me this in today's post. It gives a good summary of where a variety of items stand between Congress and the Census Bureau. Thanks for alerting me to the article Chuck. Chuck Purvis wrote: